Young students at a firebombed Hasidic school in the Montreal area remain ”nervous” after the weekend attack, a school official says. Psychologists have been brought in to work with the youngsters and teachers at the 270-student Skver Boys School in Outremont, school director Binyomin Mayer said Tuesday.The Molotov attack by a masked man triggered a brief fire early Shabbos and concern throughout the Jewish community. Classes resumed Sunday.

Children have been ”anxious, nervous, crying” at home and during the night in the wake of the attack, he said.

Those most affected, he added, are aged six to 12.

”The older ones (aged up to 17) are better at coping,” Mayer said. ”The parents are coping with it.”

At a news conference Tuesday, Mayer and several leaders of the city’s Jewish community appealed for calm and spoke reassuringly of security measures in place following the attack.

They also called for heightened vigilance near Jewish places of worship and schooling.

In a prepared statement, the school assessed damages and the cost of required security upgrades at $150,000.

”Donations are needed to secure our school from terror,” the statement added, in the aftermath of ”a deliberate act to destroy and inflict harm to our school, our students and our community.”

School surveillance cameras show the assailant initially cocked his lit Molotov at the window of a classroom occupied until 20 minutes earlier by 12 religious-school students.

”The event itself reeks of a hate crime,” said Rabbi Reuben Poupko, co-chair of the Montreal Jewish security advisory committee.

Police continue to classify the attack as a case of arson.

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